OT: ebay fraud question
Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply
OK, I have gotten another e-mail from ebay and I think it is fradulent. It
asks me to click on a link and resubmit my credit card info. I went to ebay to
look for some way to report this type of stuff but it's virtually impossible to
find out what to do without looking through all the HELP, COMMUNITY, etc.
files. I did that and can't find anything that even resembles a "Report Abuse"
type link. Does anyone know how you actually "talk" to someone at ebay?? I
would have to say that 99% of the site is about every aspect of buying or
selling and all of that info is very easy to find. I want to know how to
report a problem that has nothing to do with buying or selling. Atually, there
isn't an obvious link for "Contact Us' the way just about every other site on
the 'net has! Methinks ebay is getting a little too big for their britches!!!
CiaoMeow >^;;^<
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On Ebay's home page, click on my ebay (assuming you have an account with
them) then at the bottom of your ebay page, on the right hand side under
Trust and Safety, is "Filing a Fraud Complaint".
I hope this will help you and stop this from happening to someone who will
give them the number.
Lou
Twokats123
> OK, I have gotten another e-mail from ebay and I think it is fradulent.
>It
hi,
i got it too, but they got my email wrong but i still got the email. i, too,
checked the site they sent. it sure looked real. but i didn't to anything. ebay
have what they need from me. i did notice when i when back to ebay to check
things out, you can just delete the credit card info and send send them a
check. my mom has been trying to get on to ebay but forgot her username and
password, they never contacted her. so she gave up on it.
best wishes,
joann
Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply
Thanks bunches. But ebay is still screwed up IMNSHO!!! I did as you
recommended and it took me SEVEN different screens before I finally got to the
one for submitting complaints. That screen was really for fradulent selling or
buying ocurrances, NOT for fradulent e-mail! Personally, I think someone needs
to let ebay kkow they have a problem! Of course, there's NO WAY to actually
e-mail them with a question or comment -- they only want our money NOT our
input! CiaoMeow >^;;^<
Tracy Dunne
is an automated e-mail from e-bay to confirm the sale/purchase.
At the bottom of the e-mail there is a list of helpful links and then this
and I quote
Trading guidelines
eBay will not request personal data (password, credit card/bank
numbers, and so on) in an email. Learn how to protect your account.
If you follow the link from the above, you will find a page where you can
report the type of e-mail you have received - e-bay calls them 'spoofed'
e-mails.
HTH
Tracy
"Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply " <catwo...@aol.comnekoluvr> wrote in
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Carol Sylvester
> Hi Guys,
> OK, I have gotten another e-mail from ebay and I think it is fradulent. It
> asks me to click on a link and resubmit my credit card info. I went to ebay to
> look for some way to report this type of stuff but it's virtually impossible to
> find out what to do without looking through all the HELP, COMMUNITY, etc.
> files. I did that and can't find anything that even resembles a "Report Abuse"
> type link. Does anyone know how you actually "talk" to someone at ebay??
Here is ebay's corporate address and phone number:
2145 Hamilton Ave.
San Jose, CA 95125
Phone: 408-376-7400
Carol Sylvester
carol.s...@sopheon.com
JAKL
>checked the site they sent
ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unless you know exactly who's sending an email, DO NOT FOLLOW LINKS!!!! It's
easy to fake a sender address, especially from non-AOL mail, and it's not hard
to create a page that looks enough like Ebay to fool people. It happened with
Paypal a year or so ago. The link in the email pointed to PAYPAI (capital
letter i) instead of PAYPAL and thousands of people had their account
information harvested. Sometimes visiting a website is enough to pick up a
virus or a password sniffer.
If you hover your mouse over the link in an email, you should get a floating
box that shows the address that the link points to. This way you can sometimes
identify frauds by just the link address.
AOL'ers, if you ever get a hoax email like these, forward them to TOSREPORTS.
AOL says they're working on improving their spam filters, nd the more data they
get, the more likely they are to build something that works (yeah, I know this
IS aol we're talkign about LOL)
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Teri George
Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply ) wrote:
>Hi Guys,
> OK, I have gotten another e-mail from ebay and I think it is fradulent. It
>asks me to click on a link and resubmit my credit card info.
They've had this in the news. It's a fraud. Ebay keeps trying to
catch them and they just shut down that site and set up another one.
:(
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Teri George
Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply ) wrote:
> Thanks bunches. But ebay is still screwed up IMNSHO!!! I did as you
>recommended and it took me SEVEN different screens before I finally got to the
>one for submitting complaints.
Select "sitemap" at the very top of the opening Ebay page. At the
sitemap go down the middle column until you find "Safe Harbor". One
the areas under that listing should help you. "Investigations" looked
very promising.
Dawne Peterson
customers notice of a fraudulent attempt to gather data that sounded much
like what Tia Mary encountered with her "ebay" email.
Customers received an email asking them to update billing information. It
asked for, among other things, banking data, including PIN number. The
link provided to send the data was something innocuous like
customerservice.nameof phonecompany @ their domain address, but the link
actually connected to an address in Texas. Our ISP did get this particular
link shut down, but it appears that someone is carrying out a fairly clever
scheme to get personal information.
Be careful.
Dawne
Lucretia Borgia
Careful is the operative word there Dawne. It is pretty safe to say
that if anyone asks you for credit card details when you did not
instigate the call, mail, email etc. DON'T!
I have never been asked to confirm any details like that from any
trustworthy source. I do give my credit card number online, but only
when I have gone to the place and want to use it and only with reliable
sources, it's the same basic principle that you should use when you
actually use a credit card in person.
Sheena
Lucille
is all over the place so be very careful.
Lucille
"Dawne Peterson" <valk...@sk.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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Stitchy Kitty
company on my cell phone. She said I could pay over the phone with my checking
account number and bank routing number. I told her not over a cell phone! My
police scanner picks up cell phone calls quite frequently. Same thing with
some cordless phones. My rule of thumb is, unless I'm on a "corded" phone, I
don't give out personal info.
HTH!
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stitch...@aol.comElmo (Stitchy Kitty) writes:
>My
>police scanner picks up cell phone calls quite frequently. Same thing with
>some cordless phones.
Mmmhmmm. My folks learned that lesson after talking to dad's brother, with one
person on the landline and one on the cordless phone. Mom walked across the
street to let her brother know that they were going to be heading out for the
weekend, and he already knew. He had heard the entire conversation on his
scanner. Fortunately, they hadn't said anything he shouldn't hear.
On a similar subject, local media warn that crooks are now driving around with
a laptop and using your own home wireless network system to get into your
computer files. Save anything with your credit card number or bank account
number to a floppy disk rather than on your hard drive, and take the disk out
of the computer when you're not using it.
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Internet transactions and one for other purchases. Makes it easiers
to see if there's been fradulent activity.
Linda
Karen C - California
lew...@hotmail.com (Linda Wright) writes:
I give out the number of the one with the lowest credit limit. They're not
going to get very far on five hundred bucks.
Norma Woods
for a higher limit. Did that a few times and spent over ten thousand
dollars!
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"Karen C - California" <kmc...@aol.com.LuvXS> wrote in message
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Hollis
> On a similar subject, local media warn that crooks are now driving around with
> a laptop and using your own home wireless network system to get into your
> computer files. Save anything with your credit card number or bank account
> number to a floppy disk rather than on your hard drive, and take the disk out
> of the computer when you're not using it.
Which is why you should never never set up your own wireless network
if you don't know exactly how to secure it.
And, by the way, there are easier ways to get into someone's computer.
(Not that I personally know how, but I do dabble in knowing what
crackers are up to nowadays.)
Best way to secure your data on your computer? Don't plug it in, don't
turn it on.
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